TIL: Today I Learned

[WasabiPoptart]

I don't like scrambled eggs that are wet/runny. But give me a fried egg over easy with some toast to dip into the yolk! YUMMY!

 

[Sparhawk]

I hate eggs, as a dish. I will not eat them fried, scrambled, omelette, poaches or even green. The texture just... blech.

 

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Not in a box? Not with a fox?

 

[Officer_Charon]

True fact: never used to be able to eat eggs, for similar reasons to @Celt Z. Smell and taste would make me gag. Have trained myself to enjoy scrambled and boiled eggs, as well as omlettes. Still can't do fried, though... blech.

 

[GasBandit]

I dunno what's wrong with you mutants, I love me some eggs.

Except eggs benedict, never was a fan of that. But aside from that, I love em scrambled (to any degree of runniness or dryness) or hard boiled.

 

[Emrys]

 

[Bubble181]

I prefer my eggs soft boiled, with the white still runny and slighty-see-through, the yolks as liquid as they can get. Or a fried egg, with both white and yolk still runny, so you can just dip all of it with a good piece of bread.

You people are monsters. I don't even know you anymore.

 

[Officer_Charon]

Halforums: Where food is SRS BZNS.

 

[Emrys]

I prefer my eggs soft boiled, with the white still runny and slighty-see-through, the yolks as liquid as they can get. Or a fried egg, with both white and yolk still runny, so you can just dip all of it with a good piece of bread.

You people are monsters. I don't even know you anymore.

You're also an owl and you eat mice raw. Icky, @Bubble181. Very icky.

 

[Sparhawk]

Not in a box? Not with a fox?

Not even with a side of lox.

 

[jwhouk]

It's an art to make scrambled eggs in the microwave.

The way it was taught to me is, micro the eggs for half the suggested time, separate the solid parts, then microwave the rest of the time.

I have found that if you want less runny eggs, don't use as much milk and let the eggs set in the microwave for a few minutes.

 

[Yoshimickster]

Not in a box? Not with a fox?

If the fox was Courtney Cox.

 

[Officer_Charon]

If the fox was Courtney Cox.

You know what? Brofist for the Johnny Bravo reference.

 

[Bubble181]

You're also an owl and you eat mice raw. Icky, @Bubble181. Very icky.

I forgot, weasels cook or grill their food before consumption

 

[Emrys]

I forgot, weasels cook or grill their food before consumption

Close. Doomweasels are lazy, spoiled brats and they have their food cooked for them.[DOUBLEPOST=1396964751,1396964703][/DOUBLEPOST]There is a very noisy barn owl that has taken up residence in my barn (imagine that). @Bubble181, you need to tell your spies to be quieter.

 

[Bubble181]

@Bubble181, you need to tell your spies to be quieter.

I'm afraid he's gone rogue. You may not know it, but we've got ourselves a Rome-and-Julia-explain-how-bats-came-to-be story here.

 

[Officer_Charon]

TIL the process for being the subject of an IA investigation.

 

[GasBandit]

TIL the process for being the subject of an IA investigation.

Dammit Charon, you're a loose cannon. The mayor's riding my ass!

 

[Emrys]

Shouldn't have stolen all those hearts.

It's the riot gear. It just makes girls swoon.

 

[GasBandit]

Chicks dig grenade launchers.

 

[Emrys]

 

[CrimsonSoul]

TIL the medical pre-exam for my new job... blood drawn to check for diabetes, urine sample to check for diseases, vision and peripheral vision test, ear plug test, lung capacity test, hearing test, respirator fit test... took damn near 3 hours and I have to work tonight... yay...

 

[GasBandit]

TIL the medical pre-exam for my new job... blood drawn to check for diabetes, urine sample to check for diseases, vision and peripheral vision test, ear blug test, lung capacity test, hearing test, respirator fit test... took damn near 3 hours and I have to work tonight... yay...

The hell is your new job, Astronaut?

 

[CrimsonSoul]

The hell is your new job, Astronaut?

A plant operator at Phillips 66 #don'ttellcharliehemightfreakoutbecausei'mkillingtheenviornmentbyproducingfuel[DOUBLEPOST=1396993353,1396993200][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, I forgot the hair follicle drug test

 

[PatrThom]

I remember thinking it was unusual that I had to be fingerprinted to work for Marathon…just as a midnight cashier.

--Patrick

 

[Emrys]

I'm afraid he's gone rogue. You may not know it, but we've got ourselves a Rome-and-Julia-explain-how-bats-came-to-be story here.

I've got plenty of those in my barn too.
So, you're saying that bats are a cross between doomweasels and owls?

 

[Dirona]

That I don't need a formal psych eval for my job continues to amaze me. (Do need a detailed police records check though. Every year.) I'm guessing they assume that all the damn comittees we go through would pick up on something, but that's just self-delusion.

 

[Celt Z]

That more jobs don't require a psych eval amazes me. Some of the people I've worked with...

 

[sixpackshaker]

Most job hires depend on the subject being charming for 15 minutes. Hell, any psychopath can do that...

 

[PatrThom]

Most job hires depend on the subject being charming for 15 minutes. Hell, any psychopath can do that...

Sociopath.

--Patrick

 

[Chad Sexington]

Sociopath.

--Patrick

Both actually, although the parameters for 'sociopath' are much much less rigidly defined/understood. Jack Pemment suggests the most substantial difference between the two is that psychopaths have no morality or capacity for conscience, while sociopaths have a morality, just one they concoct for themselves, vs a social morality.

But either one can be charming or completely socially dysfunctional.

 

[GasBandit]

My understanding of psycho vs socio-pathy is that psychopathy generally has more biological origins and less control/ability to pass themselves off as normal, whereas sociopathy tends to have environmental origins (nurture instead of nature, or rather lack thereof) and is more controlled and calculating, with a higher tendency to be able to put up a facade of normalcy.

 

[PatrThom]

My understanding of the difference is that the characteristic of a psychopath is the ability to focus on/cling to something in spite of peer pressure or contrary evidence, while a sociopath is able to sound sincere but actually have no compunctions about breaking a promise later.

--Patrick

 

[GasBandit]

My understanding of the difference is that the characteristic of a psychopath is the ability to focus on/cling to something in spite of peer pressure or contrary evidence, while a sociopath is able to sound sincere but actually have no compunctions about breaking a promise later.

--Patrick

Sort of like... A sociopath can lie and pretend to protect himself and his standing. A psychopath doesn't see why he should.

 

[PatrThom]

More like, "Unlike a psychopath, when a sociopath throws you under the bus, you really weren't expecting it."

--Patrick